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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Brenas in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.3222S, -66.3536WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 94 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico (58 miles) on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 30.34 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/08/15 / 2015-08-25 05:27:21 / August 25, 2015 @ 5:27 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.3536 West, latitude 19.3222 North, depth = 30.34 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:27:21 / 1:27 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us100034np. Unique identifier: us100034np.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 94 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.3536° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3222° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 94km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-25 05:27:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-25 05:49:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 271 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.857 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us100034np Id of event.
Event Code 100034np An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100034np, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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